GENERAL PROFICIENCY

SMART DUST
Presented by:
JYOTI PRAKASH DAS
Electronics and Telecommunication
Roll No:07/272
MY TOPIC CONSIST OF:

WHAT IS SMART DUST?

ARCHITECTURE
WORKING OF SMART DUST
APPLICATION
CHALLENGES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
WHAT IS SMART DUST?
A tiny dust size device with extra-
ordinary capabilities.
Often called micro electro-mechanical
sensors
Combines sensing, computing, wireless
communication capabilities and
autonomous power supply within
volume of only few millimeters.
Useful in monitoring real world
phenomenon without disturbing the
original process.
Cont…
so small and light in weight that they
can remain suspended in the
environment like an ordinary dust
particle.
It is very hard to detect the presence of
the Smart Dust and it is even harder to
get rid of them once deployed.
Smart Dust Mote
ARCHITECHTURE:
A single Smart Dust mote has:
A semiconductor laser diode and beam
steering mirror for active optical
transmission.
A MEMS reflector for passive optical
transmission.
An optical receiver.
Sensors.
A signal processing and control
circuitry.
WORKING:
Smat dust motes are run by a
microcontroller.
Microcontollers consist of tiny sensors for
recording various types of data.
Sensors are run by timers.
Timers work for specific period by
powering up the sensors to collect data.
Data obtained are stored in its memory
for further interpretation or are send to
the base controlling station.
APPLICATIONS:

Environmental protection (identification

and monitoring of pollution).
Habitat monitoring (observing the
behavior of the animals in there natural
habitat).
Military application (monitoring
activities in inaccessible areas,
accompany soldiers and alert them to
any poisons or dangerous biological
substances in the air).
Indoor/Outdoor Environmental
Monitoring.
cont…
Security and Tracking
Health and Wellness Monitoring (enter
human bodies and check for
physiological problems).
Factory and Process Automation.
Seismic and Structural Monitoring.
Monitor traffic and redirecting it.
Exploring of planets.
Detecting onset of diseases like cancer.
CHALLENGES:

It is difficult to fit all these devices in a

small Smart Dust both size wise and
Energy wise.
With devices so small, batteries present
a massive addition of weight.
High power consumption.
Complicated design and mechanism.
CONCLUSION:

There are many ongoing researches on

Smart Dust, the main purpose of these
researches is to make Smart Dust mote
as small as possible and to make it
available at as low price as possible.
Soon we will see Smart Dust being used
in varied application from all spans of
life.
REFERENCES:
1.Yunbin Song: ”Optical Communication
Systems for Smart Dust”
2. J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. S. J. Pister: Next
Century Challenges:Mobile Networking for
“Smart Dust”
3. An Introduction to Microelectromechancal
System Engineering: Nadim Maluf, Kirt
William
4. B.A. Warneke, M.D. Scott, B.S. Leibowitz:
Distributed Wireless Sensor Network
5. http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes
6. http://www.webopedia.com
7.http://www.google.com
Thank You!